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Thomasville L.I.F.E. Tech Transition Center was created for male parolees from the Alabama Prison System who need additional education and treatment to reduce the chance of recidivism. The center is operated by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles.

L.I.F.E. (Life skills Influenced by Freedom and Education) Tech opened April 1, 2006. The center provides additional educational and treatment services to males paroled to the center. The center’s goals are to

• Provide an alternate way of thinking concerning lifestyles
• Ease the transition into home life and reestablishment of family ties
• Encourage positive decision making
• Provide a positive environment to develop future productive, tax-paying citizens

For more information about the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, visit the agency's web site.

Background

Following a study of the state's overcrowded prison system, a task force determined that one way to help alleviate the problem was to open transition centers.

In February 2004, Governor Bob Riley and the State Legislature passed ACT #04-459 giving the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles and funding necessary to open the first transitional center in the State of Alabama, which was a female facility in Wetumpka.

The purpose of the transition centers would be to help parolees make the transition from prison to society after undergoing extensive mental health and substance abuse treatment as well as vocational training.

The Thomasville facility will allow for about 600 male inmates a year to undergo its re-entry treatment programs.

The Board of Pardons and Paroles is working with several states agencies and faith-based organizations to provide the necessary transition services.

The transition program is demanding. Each parolee assigned to the center must meet obligations to participate in treatment, vocational and life skills training, and also work at the center.

The male parolees at the Thomasville transition center will have come before the Board of Pardons and Paroles for consideration and found to be unsuitable for regular parole. Instead, they will be paroled with a special condition that they must first successfully complete the LIFE Tech program.

The program consists of an intensive treatment phase followed by an educational component. Those who successfully complete the program will be transferred to regular parole and monitored to ensure a continuation of substance abuse treatment if needed, and assistance in locating a job and a home to maximize the potential of making them productive, law-abiding citizens.

Thomasville L.I.F.E. Tech Transition Center
334-637-3100
Fax: 334-637-3111
2115 Bashi Road
Thomasville, AL 36784

Thomasville L.I.F.E. Tech

ALABAMA BOARD OF PARDONS & PAROLES Male Transition Center